Shaping, enhancing and deepening the quality of training provision for Vantage Point consultants to enable them to meet, and exceed our clients' expectations

Barnabas Coaching & Training's mission is to encourage people looking to get in to, remain within, or come out of, financial services to identify and build upon their natural talents. Sometimes this can be unexpected and daunting but with persistence and great encouragement will lead to a better quality of both work and personal life. This mission is the lifeblood that connects and runs through all the limbs of the Barnabas body, the services that we provide.Barnabas Coaching & Training… Show more Barnabas Coaching & Training's mission is to encourage people looking to get in to, remain within, or come out of, financial services to identify and build upon their natural talents. Sometimes this can be unexpected and daunting but with persistence and great encouragement will lead to a better quality of both work and personal life. This mission is the lifeblood that connects and runs through all the limbs of the Barnabas body, the services that we provide.Barnabas Coaching & Training offer a unique, tailored financial services career coaching and training service including the following:Personal Strengths Analysis: Analysing your daily experiences Barnabas Coaching & Training help identify your Natural Talents, where you have built on them with skills and knowledge, and then validate them using objective 3rd party evidence.Personal Career Coaching:Using the insights from the Personal Strengths Analysis as a springboard, Barnabas Coaching & Training will help you to identify and achieve your greatest goals for a genuinely life and career-enhancing experience.Job Search Solutions:Tips for winning within the Hidden Job Market. CV Polishing Service to make your CV stand out from the crowd. Bespoke Practice Interview service for thorough interview preparation.Learning Solutions:Bespoke tailored learning solution for all your financial services training needs. Coaching goal-focused for those using the Personal Career Coaching service.Presentation Strength Building:Confidence boosting, anxiety-reducing, presentation strength building sessions. Learn how to build your presentation on the firm foundation of your natural talents to be more authentically you.Financial Markets Training:Financial markets graduate training programme material building and training delivery on Fixed Income, FX, Money Markets, Commodities, Macro Economics, Central Banks, Derivatives and Market Risk topics within Tier 1 investment banks and asset managers globally. Show less

Public course development and trainer on-boarding

• Rapidly progressed over 4 year period from support trainer to become lead technical trainer on UBS, Nomura, Fidelity and BTMU global graduate training programmes.• Designed from scratch an interactive week-long group FX, Rates, Credit, Equity and EM structured product case study for over 80 Nomura Sales & Trading graduates in Tokyo testing the graduates understanding of the risk profile of each product. Contributed to successfully securing repeat delivery of the programme for Fitch… Show more • Rapidly progressed over 4 year period from support trainer to become lead technical trainer on UBS, Nomura, Fidelity and BTMU global graduate training programmes.• Designed from scratch an interactive week-long group FX, Rates, Credit, Equity and EM structured product case study for over 80 Nomura Sales & Trading graduates in Tokyo testing the graduates understanding of the risk profile of each product. Contributed to successfully securing repeat delivery of the programme for Fitch for the following year. • Improved UBS sales & trading technical graduate programme feedback by 13% in first year as lead and maintained consistently excellent feedback over 3 year period, from graduates and training managers, focused on delivery of intermediate and advanced FX, Rates and Credit derivative topics. • Developed cutting edge FX, Rates and Credit derivatives team-based case studies. UBS Sales & Trading graduate - “I learnt so much about spot and forward-starting swaps and swaptions in the corporate uses case study. It was great to be able to learn from the more experienced members of my team, guiding by the trainer, in a really interactive setting” Show less

• Created and implemented key training for junior offshore product controllers to enhance accuracy and consistency of P&L explanation. This improved the quality of oversight for Buy & Hold P&L sign-off, and reduced time and resources taken up investigating false VAR exceptions.• Constructed, implemented and had responsibility for updating, on a monthly basis, a counterparty valuation adjustment (CVA) required reserving tool for EM Debt-wide derivative trade portfolio. This tool… Show more • Created and implemented key training for junior offshore product controllers to enhance accuracy and consistency of P&L explanation. This improved the quality of oversight for Buy & Hold P&L sign-off, and reduced time and resources taken up investigating false VAR exceptions.• Constructed, implemented and had responsibility for updating, on a monthly basis, a counterparty valuation adjustment (CVA) required reserving tool for EM Debt-wide derivative trade portfolio. This tool enhanced the quality of FDs independent CVA reserving sign-off and improved FDs reputation with front office client. • Co-ordinated the development of, and implemented, an illiquid bond-CDS basis reserving methodology for EM Debt. Enhanced clarity for front office client improving working relations with them, and plugged an important gap in the control environment. Show less

• Designed and delivered interactive product and valuation and risk software training to onshore Product Controllers with outstanding feedback. First series was recommended for roll out to offshore service centre controllers. • CFO expert on DB-wide counterparty risk exposure reserving on monoline insurer portfolio. Reserving and exposure data used directly within DB earnings releases and to inform CRM work-out teams on expected losses from insurer restructures. Promoted to VP off the… Show more • Designed and delivered interactive product and valuation and risk software training to onshore Product Controllers with outstanding feedback. First series was recommended for roll out to offshore service centre controllers. • CFO expert on DB-wide counterparty risk exposure reserving on monoline insurer portfolio. Reserving and exposure data used directly within DB earnings releases and to inform CRM work-out teams on expected losses from insurer restructures. Promoted to VP off the back of this role. • Re-designed modelling of a significant complex credit derivative trade to accurately reflect originally neglected risks, overseeing implementation. Significantly reduced operational risk on the structure and improved accuracy of market risk reporting in to VAR.• Built DB portfolio specific investment grade corporate CDS-Bond basis tracking tool. Enabled CFO to substantiate large Bond-CDS Basis P&L through 2008 and early 2009. Show less

Published article in World Petroleum, May 2006 issue, "Oil clouds darken outlook"Chatham House delegate at Chatham House-Evian Group conference in November 2006 in Shanghai on China and its challenges for the future

• Lead Economics Tutor position at Holland Park Tuition. Successfully helped over 250 A-level, Undergraduate and Graduate students improve their exam grades and understanding of economics and finance.• Mentored prospective Oxbridge applicants at Insight Education on the Oxbridge Mentoring System.

Researched and presented on the "Japanese liquidity trap" issue to Equity and Fixed Interest fund managersAwarded with the responsibility for assessing bond investments within the FinancialInstitutions sectorAwarded the Investment Management Certificate

Project managed search and selection of third party German closed-ended fundsConducted research into and helped set-up a fund of hedge funds for institutional and private clients off the back of MSc dissertationHelped develop private equity investments strategy for Italian private clientsQualified as a Securities & Financial Derivatives Representative